Happy Birthday for Tuesday, June 10, 2025:

You are forthright, energetic and ready to speak your mind. You’re a problem-solver. This is a year of teaching and learning for you. Take time to renew your spiritual or religious beliefs. Explore philosophies that will get you closer to the true meaning of your life.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19)
★★★★
In the year ahead, home and real estate will get a marvelous boost from the universe. It’s an excellent time to invest in real estate. It’s also a wonderful time to improve where you live or move to better digs. Family life will be happier as well. Tonight: Study and learn.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20)
★★★★
As lucky Jupiter moves into your House of Communications to stay for the next year, your ability to be more optimistic will grow. You will increase your contacts in your everyday world. In addition, relationships with relatives, especially siblings and cousins, will be excellent. Tonight: Check your finances.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20)
★★★★★
Good news! In the next 12 months, you’ll get richer. This is because moneybags Jupiter has moved into your Money House to stay for a year. You might get a better paying job. You might get a raise. Money and gifts will come to you. Enjoy your good fortune! Tonight: Cooperate.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)
★★★★
For the first time in 12 years, lucky Jupiter has entered your sign, bringing you divine protection for the next 12 months. Life will flow more easily. People and resources will be drawn to you. Basically, the next 12 months will be fortunate for you in personal terms. Tonight: Work.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)
★★★★
A subtle shift is occurring now as Jupiter changes signs. Jupiter takes 12 years to go through all 12 signs, staying in each sign for about a year. This means that the next 12 months will enhance the spiritual and religious dimensions of your life. Tonight: Play!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
★★★★
Your popularity will increase in the next 12 months because lucky Jupiter has just moved into your House of Friendships to stay for a year. Friends will be more supportive. Your idealism will grow, and you’ll want to make the world a better place. Tonight: Cocoon.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
★★★★
Once every 12 years, Jupiter sits at the top of your chart for a year, and this time has arrived. Expect a promotion at work, public recognition, awards or kudos. Your past efforts will be acknowledged. People will see you as successful and affluent. Bravo! Tonight: Conversations.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
★★★★★
Jupiter is now in your fellow Water Sign to stay for the next year. This will boost your creative potential! It will also boost your good health and a feeling of well-being. Financial matters will improve. Seek opportunities to travel and learn. Tonight: Money.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
★★★★
Lucky Jupiter has just entered the part of your chart that deals with the wealth and resources of others. This means that in the next 12 months, you might inherit. You will benefit from the resources and wealth of others. Perhaps your partner will get richer, which could indirectly benefit you. Tonight: You’re strong.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
★★★★
The next 12 months are a wonderful window of time for your sign to get married – the best in over a decade! Meanwhile, existing partnerships and close relationships will also benefit and improve. It’s also an excellent year to deal with experts – doctors, lawyers, counselors or astrologers. Tonight: Enjoy privacy.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
★★★★
You have marvelous opportunities to improve your health in the next 12 months. And likewise, you can improve your job or get a better job. Many of you will also have increased joy from pets because of the benefit of Jupiter traveling through your Sixth House. Tonight: Welcome a friend.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)
★★★★★
Good news! Lucky Jupiter is now in your fellow Water Sign ushering in a year where you can sit back and enjoy yourself. Your creative potential will be enormous. Your health will improve. It will also be a good time for finances and personal wealth. Tonight: You’re admired.

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Sources confirmed to The Denver Post on Monday that the Rapids agreed to a transfer fee of $1.6 million for Israeli international center back Stav Lemkin. The deal might not be finalized until some point during the MLS secondary transfer window, which runs from July 24 to Aug. 14.

Lemkin, 22, is on loan with the Israeli Premier League’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. His contract is with Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. The loan is due to finish at the end of June, with his base contract expiring in June of 2028, according to Transfermarkt.

He has three caps for the Israeli national team, all coming in the group stage of last year’s UEFA Euro qualifying rounds. He’s played in high-level club matches, too, starting or appearing in multiple Europa League matches with Tel Aviv against recognizable clubs like FC Porto and Real Sociedad.

There isn’t much film or many stats available on Lemkin, but he’s a hair below 6-foot-3, basically a prerequisite height for Rapids center backs.

But what his potential signing signals for the Rapids could be much bigger.

Perennial starting center back Andreas Maxsø garnered reported interest from Saudi Arabian teams over the offseason this past winter, but he ended up staying in Colorado.

It’s highly unlikely the Rapids would cough up seven figures for a bench player, and it’s equally unlikely the club would move to a five-back system that includes three center backs. They could move Chidozie Awaziem or Maxsø to the bench, but Awaziem is playing well and Maxsø is well compensated ($1.15 million annually, per the MLS Players’ Association).

Essentially, it may end up being the end of Maxsø in Colorado. If there’s still mutual interest in playing in the Saudi Pro League, he could make more money in a place known for its over-the-top contracts. And at 31, the Danish international doesn’t fit into the youth development prototype the Rapids want to model.

At the price point and with the club’s philosophy, a practical like-for-like pair of transactions would make sense, especially if Colorado could sell Maxsø for around Lemkin’s price or more.

An added wrinkle: Lemkin is eligible for a U-22 Initiative slot, but the Rapids don’t currently have one open. They could, however, shift from the three-Designated Player, three-U-22 model to the new two-DP, four-U-22 setup introduced last offseason. If the club went that direction, a DP — presumably winger Kévin Cabral, who has not produced at a DP level this season and hardly starts anymore — would have to depart for that to happen.

With a pivotal transfer window coming up amid an underwhelming start for the Rapids, an expensive deal for a center back is a puzzling choice for a team struggling to score (18 goals in 17 games, eighth-worst in MLS). But it could start a chain reaction that would continue a movement toward youth and the future.

Securing a young, talented center back is smart in theory, but only if the Rapids can make moves for better attacking talent, particularly on the flanks. Ted Ku-DiPietro is turning into a fantastic signing, but there’s simply not enough threat on the outside to be a 60-goal team like Colorado was last season.

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Chubb made four Pro Bowls in seven seasons with Cleveland, but was limited by injuries the past two years. He suffered a left knee injury in Week 2 at Pittsburgh in 2023 and remained sidelined until Week 7 in 2024. He then played in eight games before breaking his foot and finished with 332 yards rushing and four touchdowns.

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Chubb could join a backfield that features Joe Mixon. The two-time Pro Bowler had 1,016 yards in his first year with Houston after seven seasons in Cincinnati. The Texas won the AFC South at 10-7 before losing at Kansas City in the divisional round of the playoffs.

The 29-year-old Chubb has run for 6,843 yards since the Browns selected him in the second round in the 2018 NFL draft. He is third on the team’s career list behind Hall of Famers Jim Brown (12,312) and Leroy Kelly (7,274).

Chubb rushed for 1,525 yards and 12 TDs in 2022. He has averaged 5.1 yards per carry during his seven seasons.

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CUPERTINO, Calif. — After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech’s pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing Monday during an annual developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and cosmetic changes in its technology.

The presummer rite, which attracted thousands of developers from nearly 60 countries to Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters, was more subdued than the feverish anticipation that surrounded the event during the previous two years.

Apple highlighted plans for more AI tools designed to simplify people’s lives and make its products even more intuitive while also providing an early glimpse at the biggest redesign of its iPhone software in a decade. In doing so, Apple executives refrained from issuing bold promises of breakthroughs that punctuated recent conferences, prompting CFRA analyst Angelo Zino to deride the event as a “dud” in a research note.

In 2023, Apple unveiled a mixed-reality headset that has been little more than a niche product, and last year WWDC trumpeted its first major foray into the AI craze with an array of new features highlighted by the promise of a smarter and more versatile version of its virtual assistant, Siri — a goal that has hasn’t been achieved yet.

“This work needed more time to reach our high-quality bar,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s top software executive, said Monday at the outset of the conference. The company didn’t provide a precise timetable for the Siri’s AI upgrade to be finished but indicated it won’t happen until next year, at the earliest.

“The silence surrounding Siri was deafening,” said Forrester Research analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee said. “No amount of text corrections or cute emojis can fill the yawning void of an intuitive, interactive AI experience that we know Siri will be capable of when ready. We just don’t know when that will happen. The end of the Siri runway is coming up fast, and Apple needs to lift off.”

The showcase unfolded amid nagging questions about whether Apple has lost some of the mystique and innovative drive that turned it into a tech trendsetter during its nearly 50-year history.

Instead of making a big splash as it did with the Vision Pro headset and its AI suite, Apple took a mostly low-key approach that emphasized its effort to spruce up the look of its software with a new design called “Liquid Glass” while also unveiling a new hub for its video games and new features like a “Workout Buddy” to help manage physical fitness.

Apple executives promised to make its software more compatible with the increasingly sophisticated computer chips that have been powering its products while also making it easier to toggle between the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

“Our product experience has become even more seamless and enjoyable,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told the crowd as the 90-minute showcase wrapped up.

IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo said Apple seemed to be largely using Monday’s conference to demonstrate the company still has a blueprint for success in AI, even if it’s going to take longer to realize the vision that was presented a year ago.

“This year’s event was not about disruptive innovation, but rather careful calibration, platform refinement and developer enablement –positioning itself for future moves rather than unveiling game-changing technologies,” Jeronimo said.

Besides redesigning its software. Apple will switch to a method that automakers have used to telegraph their latest car models by linking them to the year after they first arrive at dealerships. That means the next version of the iPhone operating system due out this autumn will be known as iOS 26 instead of iOS 19 — as it would be under the previous naming approach that has been used since the device’s 2007 debut.

The iOS 26 upgrade is expected to be released in September around the same time Apple traditionally rolls out the next iPhone models.

In an early sign that AI wasn’t going to be a focal point of this year’s conference, Apple opened the proceedings with a short video clip featuring Federighi speeding around a track in a Formula 1 race car. Although it was meant to promote the June 27 release of the Apple film, “F1” starring Brad Pitt, the segment could also be viewed as an unintentional analogy to the company’s attempt to catch up to the rest of the pack in AI technology.

While some of the new AI tricks compatible with the latest iPhones began rolling out late last year as part of free software updates, the delays in a souped-up Siri became so glaring that the chastened company stopped promoting it in its marketing campaigns earlier this year.

While Apple has been struggling to make AI that meets its standards, the gap separating it from other tech powerhouses is widening. Google keeps packing more AI into its Pixel smartphone lineup while introducing more of the technology into its search engine to dramatically change the way it works. Samsung, Apple’s biggest smartphone rival, is also leaning heavily into AI. Meanwhile, ChatGPT recently struck a deal that will bring former Apple design guru Jony Ive into the fold to work on a new device expected to compete against the iPhone.

Besides grappling with innovation challenges, Apple also faces regulatory threats that could siphon away billions of dollars in revenue that help finance its research and development. A federal judge is currently weighing whether proposed countermeasures to Google’s illegal monopoly in search should include a ban on long-running deals worth $20 billion annually to Apple while another federal judge recently banned the company from collecting commissions on in-app transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system.

On top of all that, Apple has been caught in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, a key manufacturing hub for the Cupertino, California, company. Cook successfully persuaded Trump to exempt the iPhone from tariffs during the president’s first administration, but he has had less success during Trump’s second term, which seems more determined to prod Apple to make its products in the U.S.

The multidimensional gauntlet facing Apple is spooking investors, causing the company’s stock price to plunge by 20% so far this year — a decline that has erased about $750 billion in shareholder wealth. After beginning the year as the most valuable company in the world, Apple now ranks third behind longtime rival Microsoft, another AI leader, and AI chipmaker Nvidia.

Apple’s shares closed down by more than 1% on Monday — an early indication the company’s latest announcements didn’t inspire investors.

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Last month, Scottie Scheffler made mention of a trend in golf design that rubs him wrong — removing trees from courses.

This week, the world’s best player and favorite to win the U.S. Open will play a course that did just that, but didn’t become one bit easier the way some layouts do when the trees go away. Under the dark of night three decades ago, the people in charge of Oakmont Country Club started cutting down trees. They didn’t stop until some 15,000 had been removed.

The project reimagined one of America’s foremost golf cathedrals and started a trend of tree cutting that continues to this day.

While playing a round on YouTube with influencer Grant Horvat, Scheffler argued that modern pro golf — at least at most stops on the PGA Tour — has devolved into a monotonous cycle of “bomb and gouge”: Hit drive as far as possible, then gouge the ball out of the rough from a shorter distance if the tee shot is off line.

“They take out all the trees and they make the greens bigger and they typically make the fairways a little bigger, as well,” Scheffler said. “And so, the only barrier to guys just trying to hit it as far as they want to or need to, it’s trees.”

With or without trees, Oakmont has stood the test of time

Scheffler and the rest in the 156-man field that tees off Thursday should be so lucky.

While the latest Oakmont renovation, in 2023, did make greens bigger, fairways are never wide at the U.S. Open and they won’t be this week.

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Tree-lined or not, Oakmont has a reputation as possibly the toughest of all the U.S. Open (or any American) courses, which helps explain why it is embarking on its record 10th time hosting it. In the two Opens held there since the tree-removal project was completed, the deep bunkers, serpentine drainage ditches and lightning-fast greens have produced winning scores of 5-over par (Angel Cabrera in 2007) and 4 under (Dustin Johnson in 2016).

In an ironic twist that eventually led to where we (and Oakmont) are today, the layout was completely lined with trees in 1973 when Johnny Miller shot 63 on Sunday to win the U.S. Open. That record stood for 50 years, and the USGA followed up with a course setup so tough in 1974 that it became known as “The Massacre at Winged Foot” -- won by Hale Irwin with a score of 7-over par.

“Everybody was telling me it was my fault,” Miller said in a look back at the ’74 Open with Golf Digest. “It was like a backhanded compliment. The USGA denied it, but years later, it started leaking out that it was in response to what I did at Oakmont. Oakmont was supposed to be the hardest course in America.”

It might still be.

In a precursor to what could come this week, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott played practice rounds last Monday in which McIlroy said he made a 7 on the par-4 second and Scott said he hit every fairway on the front nine and still shot 3 over.

Nicklaus: Trees should only come down ‘for a reason’

While Oakmont leaned into tree removal, there are others who aren’t as enthused.

Jack Nicklaus, who added trees to the 13th hole at Muirfield Village after seeing players fly a fairway bunker on the left for a clear look at the green, said he’s OK with tree removal “if they take them down for a reason.”

“Why take a beautiful, gorgeous tree down?” he said. “Like Oakmont, for example. What’s the name of it? Oak. Mont. What’s that mean? Oaks on a mountain, sort of. And then they take them all down. I don’t like it.”

A lot of Oakmont’s members weren’t fans, either, which is why this project began under dark of night. The golf course in the 1990s was barely recognizable when set against pictures taken shortly after it opened in 1903.

Architect Henry Fownes had set out to build a links-style course. Dampening the noise and view of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which bisects the layout, was one reason thousands of trees were planted in the 1960s and ’70s.

“We were finding that those little trees had all grown up and they were now hanging over some bunkers,” R. Banks-Smith, the chairman of Oakmont’s grounds committee when the project began, said in a 2007 interview. “And once you put a tree on either side of a bunker, you lose your bunker. So, you have to make a decision. Do you want bunkers or do you want trees?”

Oakmont went with bunkers – its renowned Church Pew Bunker between the third and fourth fairways might be the most famous in the world – and thus began a tree project that divides people as much today as it did when it started.

“I’m not always the biggest fan of mass tree removal,” Scott said. “I feel a lot of courses that aren’t links courses get framed nicely with trees, not like you’re opening it up to go play way over there.”

Too many trees, though, can pose risks.

Overgrown tree roots and too much shade provide competition for the tender grasses beneath. They hog up oxygen and sunlight and make the turf hard to maintain. They overhang fairways and bunkers and turn some shots envisioned by course architects into something completely different.

They also can be downright dangerous. In 2023 during the second round of the Masters, strong winds toppled three towering pine trees on the 17th hole, luckily missing fans who were there watching the action.

“There are lots of benefits that trees provide, but only in the right place,” said John Fech, the certified arborist at University of Nebraska who consults with the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.

When Oakmont decided they didn’t want them at all, many great courses followed. Winged Foot, Medinah, Baltusrol and Merion are among those that have undergone removal programs.

Five years ago, Bryson DeChambeau overpowered Winged Foot, which had removed about 300 trees, simply by hitting the ball as far as he could, then taking his chances from the rough.

It’s the sort of golf Scheffler seems to be growing tired of: “When you host a championship tournament, if there’s no trees, you just hit it wherever you want, because if I miss a fairway by 10 yards, I’m in the thick rough (but) if I miss by 20, I’m in the crowd,” Scheffler told Horvat.

How well that critique applies to Oakmont will be seen this week.

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AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson contributed.

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OAKMONT, Pa. — The U.S. Open long has been regarded the toughest test in golf, and this year it returns to what is arguably the toughest course in America.

Oakmont Country Club outside Pittsburgh is the talk of the 125th U.S. Open, a course built in 1903 that is more about being feared than being fair. The rough is as thick as ever. The greens are as fast as any. There’s also the famous Church Pew bunkers between the third and fourth holes.

Scottie Scheffler shot 69 in his U.S. Open debut as a Texas teenager. He missed the cut the next day in 2016. Now he’s the favorite as he comes to Oakmont having won three of his last four tournaments, including the PGA Championship.

Here is a look at what you need to know leading up to the U.S. Open:

When is the US Open?

Golf’s second-oldest championship — it dates to 1895 — starts Thursday at 6:45 a.m. Players in groups of three will start on the first and 10th tees, morning and afternoon. The biggest names typically start on No. 10 in the morning or on No. 1 in the afternoon to get peak TV coverage.

The top 60 and ties make the 36-hole cut Friday and advance to the weekend.

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How can I watch the US Open?

NBC and its platforms get their first major of the year, and there is wall-to-wall coverage of the U.S. Open.

Thursday starts on USA Network from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Peacock takes over until 8 p.m. Friday starts on Peacock at 6:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., and then NBC goes until 8 p.m.

Saturday has USA Network from 10 a.m. to noon, and NBC goes from noon until 8 p.m. The final round Sunday starts at 9 a.m. until noon on USA Network, and NBC takes over until the end.

Who are the betting favorites?

The odds keep getting better for Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world. BetMGM Sportsbook has him at +275. Next in line is defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (+750).

Rory McIlroy was the second favorite on the BetMGM Sportsbook money line last week at +700. He missed the cut at the Canadian Open last week and goes into the U.S. Open at +1200, along with Jon Rahm. They are followed by Xander Schauffele at +2200.

Phil Mickelson needs the U.S. Open to complete the career Grand Slam and this likely is his last appearance. The 54-year-old Mickelson is at +25000.

Who are the players to watch?

Scottie Scheffler is being compared to Tiger Woods based on modern statistics. He is being compared to Jack Nicklaus for the way he plays the game from tee-to-green with minimal mistakes. He has won three of his last four starts going into Oakmont. A victory at the U.S. Open would send Scheffler to the British Open with a shot at the career Grand Slam.

Rory McIlroy is No. 2 and the Masters champion, along with becoming the latest player to complete the Grand Slam. There was thought the Masters title would give him freedom because he had gone 11 years without any major. But he missed the cut in Canada last week and said he found it hard to get motivated when he was practicing.

Xander Schauffele is coming off a year in which he won two majors. He was out with two months because of a rib injury. But he plays this major well. Schauffele has played the U.S. Open eight times and only once has finished outside the top 10.

Not to be overlooked is Bryson DeChambeau as the defending champion. He loves brute tests like Oakmont. And he was in the mix in the final round at the Masters and the PGA Championship. DeChambeau won his two U.S. Opens at Winged Foot (2020) and Pinehurst No. 2 (2024).

What’s at stake?

The U.S. Open trophy doesn’t have a name. The winner also gets the gold medal named after four-time champion Jack Nicklaus. The prize money hasn’t been announced yet, but it was $21.5 million last year, with $4.3 million going to the winner.

The champion also gets a 10-year exemption to the U.S. Open, along with a five-year exemption to the Masters, PGA Championship and British Open.

What happens in case of a playoff?

The U.S. Open has gone the longest of the four majors without a playoff. That was in 2008, when Tiger Woods famously made a 12-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to force an 18-hole Monday playoff against Rocco Mediate at Torrey Pines. That took 19 holes for Woods to win.

Since then, the U.S. Open has gone to a two-hole aggregate playoff on the Sunday after the conclusion of regulation. That has not been used yet.

What’s the weather forecast?

There’s been a lot of rain in the last week that has softened the course. The weekday rounds should be reasonably dry. But there’s a good chance of thunderstorms on Saturday and lingering rain on Sunday.

What happened last year?

Bryson DeChambeau got up-and-down from 55 yards away in a bunker, making a 4-foot putt for a 1-over 71 and a one-shot victory over Rory McIlroy at Pinehurst No. 2. McIlroy had the lead late in the round but bogeyed three of his last four holes. That included missing a 30-inch par putt on the 16th hole and a par putt just inside 4 feet on the last hole. DeChambeau captured his second U.S. Open. McIlroy left without talking to the media.

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The temporary restrictions, which were put into effect at noon Monday, extend from the western boundary of unincorporated Jefferson County through the eastern limits of Golden, including Vanover Park.

Kayaks, river boards, whitewater canoes and multi-chambered professionally guided rafts are exempt but are encouraged to take extreme caution due to the safety concerns surrounding swift moving water and floating debris. All authorized users and occupants must use a Type I, Type III or Type V Coast Guard-approved flotation vest and helmet.

Water height and flows are expected to rise as the heavy snowpack continues to melt in the coming days.

The restrictions will be strictly enforced and violators may be issued a summons for a class 2 petty offense, punishable by a fine of up to $100.

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Evans, who represents Colorado’s competitive 8th Congressional District, criticized the state’s “radical leftist leaders” in a news release Monday after his resolution passed, saying they have enacted laws that “prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety.”

“The passing of my resolution ensures we condemn all acts of antisemitism and affirms that the free and open collaboration between state and local law enforcement with their federal counterparts is key in preventing future attacks like this,” he said.

All Republicans in Colorado’s congressional delegation voted in favor, except Lauren Boebert, who did not vote.

How is the Colorado congressional delegation voting?

One-hundred-thirteen Democrats, including Colorado's U.S. Reps. Jason Crow and Diana DeGette, voted against Evans' measure. The other two Democrats in Colorado's congressional delegation, U.S. Reps. Brittany Pettersen and Joe Neguse, voted in favor.

DeGette, in a news release, said Evans' resolution "exploits this incident to demonize migrants, celebrate ICE and ignore the real concerns of Jewish Americans."

She said she sided with a separate resolution introduced by Neguse that also condemns the attack but doesn't mention the alleged perpetrator, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian national who used Molotov cocktails to injure more than a dozen people -- some severely -- who were marching along the Pearl Street Mall in solidarity with hostages still being held captive by the militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Soliman faces 118 charges, including dozens of counts of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault.

Neguse's resolution has not yet received a vote in the House.

A third resolution introduced by New Jersey Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew that condemned the Boulder attack and called for combating antisemitism in the United States passed the House on Monday by a 400-0 vote.

Evans' resolution lays out the various immigrant violations that authorities say were committed by Soliman, 45, since he first came to the country in 2022. He was living in Colorado Springs when authorities say he drove to Boulder on June 1 and targeted the hostage-advocacy group Run for Their Lives.

The attack, the resolution states, "demonstrates the dangers of not removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of their visas." And it "expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland."

The votes on the competing resolutions came after a weekend of increasing violence and chaos in Los Angeles, as protesters demonstrated -- and in some cases rioted -- in response to federal immigration authorities acting under orders from the Trump administration arresting groups of suspected immigrants on Friday.

Protesters standing above the closed southbound 101 Freeway threw chunks of concrete, rocks, electric scooters and fireworks at California Highway Patrol officers and their vehicles that were parked on the highway. Officers ran under an overpass to take cover.

Nearby, at least four self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky and exploding intermittently as the electric vehicles burned.

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Until that changes, neither will anything on Nikola Jokic’s spring travel itinerary.

Another Memorial Day in Sombor. Another June with no parade. Another year closer to the end of the greatest career in Nuggets history.

So, to the next Denver general manager, especially if that’s interim Ben Tenzer, we humbly beseech three things.

First: Be heartened by the pluck and guile the Nuggets showed against the Thunder three weeks ago.

Second: Do not be fooled or charmed by it.

Third, and this is key: Do not give in to insanity. Do not do the same thing, over and over, and expect a different result.

Do not run it back. Please. For the love of Pete Williams, do not run it back.

Do not look at Thunder vs. Timberwolves or Thunder vs. Pacers and decide, in your head, that the job is mostly done. Do not settle. Do not tell yourself that rest, a coaching change and schematics are the only things between you and a return to the NBA Finals.

“You know, we took the Oklahoma City Thunder, (which) is playing some of the best basketball in the league, if not the best right now, to seven games,” Nuggets president Josh Kroenke reflected late last month. “Which, you know, is great. We took a great team to seven games. That series could have been 4-0 the other way. That series could have been 4-1 us. I don’t think we lost Game 7 during Game 7. I thought we lost Game 7 during Games 4 and 5.

“These series are very fragile things, and they come down to little moments in time and certain actions over the course of a few-minute span in games. And so while I think we were close in some ways, I don’t think it was a 4-0 sweep for Oklahoma City.”

It wasn’t. And they are close. But not “Nuggets-Thunder was the real NBA Finals!” close. You don’t hang banners for almosts.

Yes, the Nuggets took the best team in the West to seven games with their “Core Six” — the starting five plus Russell Westbrook — held together by guts, gauze and chewing gum. Michael Porter Jr. had one good shoulder. Aaron Gordon had one hamstring. Westbrook had one good hand.

The Nuggets played the underdog card as if Michael Malone, a terrier of a man who loved punching up, had never left. It was beautiful. Well, except for Game 2. And Game 7.

Ask yourself this question, and be honest: What would’ve happened to this same Nuggets team if it had sprung the upset vs. OKC and landed Minnesota in the conference finals?

Oh, you know. Anthony Edwards knows. Chris Finch knows. Russ knows. The Joker knows.

Deep down, Josh knows, too.

“We’re close,” Kroenke said, “but I don’t want to be naive in thinking of how close we are. But I don’t want to underestimate how close we were either. I mean, shoot, thinking back to the first round, I mean, we’re an Aaron Gordon tip-dunk away from perhaps coming back (to Denver) down 3-1. And then what does that series look like? Do we even have the opportunity to go out and try and chase a team as great as the Thunder? So there (are) lots of ways to kind of weigh how close we are.

“But I think that as a group, we feel confident that we can go toe to toe with a lot of teams around the league. And now we’re going to get to work seeing about how we can go toe to toe and then overtake them.”

For a start, the most impactful piece sitting next to Jamal Murray can’t be a heat pack.

The Nuggets, bless them, emptied the tank. They gave all they had. Which, by mid-May, wasn’t much. A roster that runs six deep won’t last two rounds before you throw a rod, before a timing belt snaps like a dry twig.

“I think that the way that our players responded over the last six, seven weeks or so really told the world that the Nuggets’ job, whether it’s coaching or front office, is a really special one,” Kroenke continued. “And especially where we are right now,”

Hope is fine. Delusion is the enemy of progress.

Until that bench gets addressed with more than lip service, someone’s always going to come along by Mother’s Day to steal Jokic’s Thunder. At this time of year, a first aid kit will carry you only so far before the plaster cracks.

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Questions mounted, too, over the legality of the governor’s move to turn over personal information to the agency leading the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, prompting a news conference that drew advocates as well as state lawmakers. Last week, a state official sued Polis to try to stop his office from responding to the subpoena from an arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We are outraged as state employees that our governor wanted us to actively support that assault on our community and (make) us, as state workers, accomplices in an illegal and morally reprehensible act,” Colorado WINS president Diane Byrne said during the news conference outside Denver city hall.

The frustration with Polis comes amid deepening division around federal immigration enforcement nationally. Marines and National Guard troops have been deployed in Los Angeles in response to protests against immigration enforcement. Speakers in Denver on Monday called for the release of a California labor leader who was injured and arrested by immigration authorities over the weekend.

Colorado WINS, along with the state’s AFL-CIO chapter, is set to join the lawsuit filed by Scott Moss, a director within the state Department of Labor and Employment, accusing Polis of violating state law that regulates how information can be shared with immigration authorities.

The suit accuses Polis of personally deciding to turn over personal information about the sponsors of unaccompanied, undocumented children to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite Moss’ protests in internal discussions that it was illegal and would violate the trust of immigrants.

Polis’ office has maintained that it can legally turn over the information because the subpoena is part of a “specific” criminal investigation regarding child abuse.

But his office has not provided evidence supporting that claim, beyond pointing to the subpoena itself. A copy of the subpoena obtained by The Denver Post does not describe a specific criminal investigation. It cites a civil statute related to deportations and describes “investigative activities” intended to proactively check on children and ensure their safety, rather than a response to allegations of abuse.

On Monday, Polis spokeswoman Shelby Wieman pointed to a recent statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about its efforts to check on children. The agency said it had found cases of child exploitation and abuse elsewhere among unaccompanied minors.

“These welfare checks are not primarily immigration enforcement focused,” DHS wrote of its efforts to find and contact undocumented children, “but if ICE agents or officers encounter individuals who are in the United States illegally, they take them into custody and process them for removal in accordance with federal immigration law.”

Several Democratic lawmakers attended Monday’s press conference, which came shortly after an initial court hearing in Moss’ lawsuit. One legislator — Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver — questioned how Polis “can continue to think that he can lead our state.”

She later deflected when asked if she was calling on Polis to resign.

Questions about investigation

Moss’ first hearing in Denver District Court was a largely administrative affair, with a more determinative hearing set for June 23.

Moss alleges that Polis initially declined to comply with a subpoena sent in late April by ICE, which sought employment and personal information about the sponsors of unaccompanied and undocumented children.

But, Moss wrote, the governor later “personally” decided to fulfill the request and ordered Moss and other state employees to comply. The subpoena, which is not signed by a judge, seeks personal information about the sponsors, who are typically relatives caring for the kids while they await deportation proceedings.

Polis’ reversal came shortly after he signed Senate Bill 276, which expands restrictions in the law limiting how state employees can share data with immigration authorities.

Polis’ decision violates state law, Moss alleges. He’s asking a judge to rule that Polis’ request is illegal. Through his lawyer, Polis has agreed not to fulfill the subpoena until a judge rules on the legality of the governor’s directive.

Wieman said the state — after allegedly resolving not to respond to the subpoena for roughly a month — now regretted the delay caused by Moss’ lawsuit.

Polis’ office repeatedly maintained that it could fulfill the subpoena because it was related to a “specific … investigation regarding child exploitation, abuse, and trafficking,” spokesman Eric Maruyama said Thursday. State law allows information-sharing with ICE if the information is part of a criminal investigation or if the subpoena is signed by a judge.

The subpoena refers to “investigative activities” and states that ICE is seeking employment information of sponsors “to ensure that these children are appropriately located, properly cared for, and are not subjected to crimes of human trafficking or other forms of exploitation.” The subpoena does not provide any indication that ICE has received allegations that misconduct is taking place. It does not reference a specific criminal investigation.

Above that description is a box that ICE officials could check if the subpoena was “in regard to an investigation involving child exploitation and/or transmission of child pornography via the internet.” The box is not checked. The statute cited in the subpoena relates to civil immigration enforcement and the “expedited removal of inadmissible arriving aliens.”

A spokesman for ICE did not return a message seeking comment last week.

“There is nothing on the face of the subpoena that suggests that this is related to a criminal investigation,” David Seligman, whose nonprofit law firm Towards Justice also joined Moss’ suit, said Monday.

Lawmakers also asked for details

Polis spokeswoman Wieman said Monday that officials carefully considered the state’s response “in accordance with Colorado law.”

When repeatedly asked if Polis’ office had received any evidence or indication of a specific ICE investigation into child abuse, Wieman pointed to the subpoena’s reference to “investigative activities.” She said that “specifics of the investigation are not typically shared while the investigation is ongoing.”

“If there are people criminally exploiting the children, the Governor wants to ensure they are held fully accountable to the law, which could include prosecution and deportation if they are here illegally,” Wieman wrote.

Rep. Lorena Garcia, an Adams County Democrat who co-sponsored the bill expanding the state’s rules around sharing information with ICE, said she asked Polis’ chief of staff and one of his attorneys about the subpoena last week.

She was told, she said, that Polis’ office “believed” there was an investigation. When Garcia and other lawmakers asked for evidence of such an investigation, they didn’t receive any, she said.

“What I took from that conversation was that they were making an assumption because (ICE) is making a request,” Garcia said.

The question may become central to Polis’ defense against Moss’ lawsuit. On Monday, Moss’ lawyer, Laura Wolf, asked Denver District Judge A. Bruce Jones to compel Polis’ office to provide evidence of the criminal investigation that Polis has said he is eager to support.

Jones declined to do so. But if Polis or his office testifies about an investigation without evidence supporting its existence, Jones said, he would exclude that testimony.

Polis is being represented in Moss’ lawsuit by a private attorney, not by the office of Attorney General Phil Weiser. Polis spokesman Maruyama said last week that Weiser’s office had provided unspecified legal advice about the subpoena and was thus conflicted out of representing Polis.

A spokesman for Weiser, who is currently defending the state’s immigration laws against a Trump administration lawsuit, declined to say what legal counsel the AG’s office had provided.

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